Virgin post

Quote (not wholly accurate):
"Some people have only one cycle in life while others have many cycles. Different cycles you'll need different friends and then you'll find that you'll not be as close to your current friends. Humans are selfish by nature."

Agreed, but i believe some relationships are timeless through the 'cycles'. Just more rare and often overlooked till we have time to sit back look in retrospect.

It's amazing the things you get to hear from random people, in this case, a father of an ex-recruit from my last batch of recruits that i took for only about a month. Went back for their POP and that seems enough for one mother to think we are 'garang' and interested in signing on.

He went on saying we all need a change in scenery sometimes and seemed to imply that that's why people divorce. Because they find that they reached another cycle in life and the person they thought suited at the earlier point of time is not suitable anymore. What's more amazing is how casually he said it in front of his wife!
In his words, "People get together when they do not understand each other, but separate when they finally do."

I do agree with one part of his talk though.
All guys in Singapore identify through NS, regardless of age.
No matter how you try to argue it, when you get a group of guys together, chances are, the common lingo will pop up and the customary, 'my life was harder than yours', verbal competition will commence. More than anything, NS serves as a nation building project, and it looks to be successful too.
I can almost hear people taunting me to 'sign on' again. I guess it's just normal for soldiers to exercise the only right they have, to rant and complain!

Cheers.